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Email address and the city’s privacy policy was a subject of last week’s Irvine City Council meeting, though there’s barely any mention of it in the Irvine World News/OC Post or the OC Register. Irvine Tattler publisher Stephen Smith has a lengthly diatribe about how Council member Christina Shea’s request for all email lists is…

Everyone knows at least one crazy relative who always manages to embarrass themselves at family functions. You know the type. You appreciate their sense of humor or forthrightness, but sometimes they take things a beat too far. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher sometimes can be just like that. While we often appreciate his maverick nature and his…

(Image courtesy of LA Times) “Debbie Cook is a serious candidate, with serious money, with serious name recognition at a time when the country is looking for change.” – Mark Petracca, Chairman of the Political Science Department, UC Irvine. “There are a lot of Republicans in this town that are going to vote for me.…

“Typically in Republican primaries and typically in Orange County, the candidates are going to be pretty close together philosophically, so it makes it more challenging to indicate differences between the candidates that can convince voters they should vote for you and not the other guy.” – Dick Ackerman, Soon-to-be-termed-out State Senate Minority Leader (R-Irvine) I…

Norberto Santana over at the Orange County Register reported yesterday about the proposed increase inÃ‚Â car allowance and free gas that County elected officials and senior executive managers receive as part of ther benefit package. In an environment where the county is redcing needed staff, closing needed facilities, and avoiding the purchase of needed equipment, they…

Former Bush administration press secretary Scott McClellan, a former pupil ofÃ‚Â Irvine Mayor Beth Krom when she was a student teacher,Ã‚Â has a new book coming out about his time at the White House and it has former colleagues in an uproar. Bush press secretary Dana Perino issued the followingÃ‚Â statement:Ã‚Â “Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about…